Hello Santhi, Many softwares sets it up to start up as soon as windows starts: For example: msmgs.exe (MSN messanger), realsched.exe (real player's automatic updates), etc. These causes slowing down of windows at start up. So, you can stop these programs to automatically start when windows start, and set it up to start Manually when needed. To do this:
1. Click Start button and click "Run"
2. Type in "msconfig"
3. Click the "Start Up" index
4. You will see many programs with "check marks" and you can also see the description of those files..
5. If those files are related to the programs you know like "MSN messenger", "Real" then you can just Uncheck those..If you are not sure what those programs do then look it up on this site: http://www.processlibrary.com/directory/files/a This website has "a-z" index of all the possible programs that run at start up and provides description too...if the decription says that program is needed for windows then leave it "checked mark" and if it does not then "remove check marks".
6. After you get done with all the programs then click "Apply".
7. You will get a message about "restart" just click yes and restart your message.
8. when windows restarts you will get a system message saying "You have changed System Configuration....Blah! Blah!" Just Click "Don not show this message again" and hit ok.
9. At this time you will not feel a difference as that system message takes some time to load. However, if you restart again then you will see windows loading faster. Also as Uros said, Defragmenting your hard drive will also boost up the performance.
You can do it by: Start Menu>Accessories>System Tools>Defragmenter Hope this helps. Anuj |
